JIQ Workbook Answer Key (1.10.10)
So here they are–all the blanks you might have missed during JIQ because we talked too fast, we forgot to mention them, or we were just so jaw-droppingly compelling that you dropped your pen.
Most likely it was one of the first two. Enjoy.
p. 10
Blessed or Cursed
the Angel of the Lord
Submission
1. Blessing
2. Blessing: “God Hears”
3. Blessing: Wild donkey=freedom (Job 39.5-8)
4. Blessing: Involved in/participating in the lives of his brother’s descendants
5. Wait and see…
Hagar’s response is gratitude
6. Blessing
Isaac receives the promise/Ishmael receives the promise
p. 11
7. Blessing
8. Blessing
9. Blessing
Paran is to the east of Isaac
p. 12
glorious ingathering
sons of Ishmael
minister
Arabian peninsula
Arabia
God has a plan for Ishmael’s people
p. 14
Constantine legalized Christianity and made it the official religion of the Empire
Nicene Creed established orthodoxy, especially related to the Person of Christ
Expulsion of heresy occurred as a result of nationalized Christianity—many “Christians” with variant beliefs migrated/fled to the Arabian peninsula, which by the 6th century comprised a mixture of Jews, Hanifs, polytheistic Arab tribes, and “Christians” with varying beliefs.
Muhammad’s influences: Arab polytheists, heretic Christians, Jews, Abrahamic monotheists called Hanifs
The Qur’an addresses a number of heresies that had already been dealt with 300 years earlier during the age of great Christian councils, and we should learn to read it through the cultural lens of its time.
100 Glorious Years saw Islam expand throughout N. Africa, the Levant, and into Asia Minor in a rapid amount of time as the Roman Empire collapsed
Crusades, literally “war of the Cross,” were the West’s response to the 100 Glorious Years—retaking the “Holy Land” from the infidel menace
Constantinople fell to the Ottomans in 1453
Conflict marked the interaction between Muslims and Christians 1350s-1850s
Ataturk abolished the Ottoman caliphate in 1924, which many modern Muslim leaders (including bin Laden) have pointed to as a turning point of “Western Aggression”
Leadership has been largely absent in the Muslim world since the caliphate was abolished and many aspiring people have tried to take the “true leadership” (often times, however, they do not represent mainstream Islam)
The Gospel must address this history and this present and look forward to the future with peace in Jesus.
p. 19 Shame/honor
The sea=ummah—worldwide community of Muslim believers
The hull=honor, the idea of being welcomed and lifted up in the eyes of the community
The roof=family name, this is the crown of honor, a Muslim will fight and even die for the honor of his family name
Column 1=Arabic. It is the heavenly language, honored worldwide wherever Islam is practiced.
Column 2=Islam. The Qur’an and the Hadith are held in extremely high regard, as are some of the traditions and folk Islamic beliefs.
Column 3=Bedouin Intangibles. Maintaining your generosity, courage, hospitality, and the sexual purity of your family’s women are of highest importance.
Torpedoes to honor=1. Anything that insults Arabic, Islam, or shows a lack of honor/hospitality/courage etc. 2. Shirk (the most severe of all torpedoes); it is officially associating other gods with God, by extension it includes forsaking Islam for another religion. Those who commit shirk do something so shameful that they are considered dead to the Islamic ummah.
p. 20
Unclean
Unbeliever
Corrupt
Crusader
Zionist
Western
Polytheistic
Matt 23.15, Acts 2.10, Acts 6.5, and Acts 13.43 all contain the Greek word “proseleutos,” forms the basis of our modern word “proselyte” and refers specifically to changing religion. In these instances, that phrase refers strictly to those who have changed religion to Judaism.
Romans 16.5 and 1 Cor 16.15 use the Greek word “aparquee,” which literally means “first fruits”
Acts 15.3 uses the Greek word “epistrepho,” which literally means “turning” or “repentance”
Jesus did not come to establish a new religion but to invite the entire world to repentance and spiritual rebirth
p. 26-7
Similarities: worship one God, avoid images, sense of being chosen people, loyalty/practice of Sabbath, circumcision, and festivals, expectation of glorious destiny
Differences: had their own priesthood, their own worship practice, their own Scripture (Samaritan Pentateuch)
Samaritanism was a completely different religion
Jesus’ Approach
Initiates
Boundaries
Spiritual Conversation
Literature
Specific Need
Religion
Himself
Umma/Oikos/Community and it is totally transformed
p. 28
preaching the Kingdom of God
delivers
oikos=community
apengellion=root of “evangelize”
karuzo=same word for “preach” that was used to describe Jesus
Conclusion=discipleship/community
Result=Decapolis, 4000 people
p. 29
5 pillars: Shahada (confession), Salat (prayer), Zakat (almsgiving), Sawm (fasting), Hajj (pilgrimage)
1. Circumcision/Jews
2. New Covenant/obsolete
3. Used/Gospel’s
Muslims/Muslims
p. 31
Become like
They remain like
p. 32
Islamic Theology=The composite teachings of family, religious leaders, traditions, hadith, etc.
Qur’anic Theology=What the Qur’an actually says
p. 34
1. wrong
2. pleasure/everywhere/self-sufficient
3. religious devotion
4. cultural identity
5. writings/Zeus!
6. premise
7. fruit
p. 39
God-Mary-Jesus
Who is Jesus is the most important question
p. 40
Torah
Psalms
Gospels
“Remembrance” (when used as “Books of Remembrance” refers to the Bible and Qur’an)
Corruption
1. Allah/Tawrat/Zabur/Injeel
2. Guards
3. tells/all
for guidance/
avoiding hellfire/
insight
p. 41
5/corrupted
text/meaning
with their tongues
their understanding
using passages out of their proper contexts
p. 42-43
1. sign/miracle
2. prophet
3. virgin
4. sinless
5. near-stationed
6. miracles/resurrections
7. Word of God
8. Spirit of God
9. Mercy
10. Fear/obey/straight path
p. 44
Simeon/Judas
The Jews
1. God/tawaffa=die/”pass away”
2. said/raised
3. alive/die
p. 46
denigration/veneration
revere
think
1. united
2. reforms
3. idols/one God
4. read the Bible
5. Jesus
